From their notes:Ĭommon Area Phone (CAP) online support.

Recently AudioCodes mentioned “Common Area Phone (CAP) online support” in their 400HD Series IP Phones for Microsoft Skype for Business Version 3.0.4 release notes. In Skype for Business Online, there has been no equivalent, meaning if you had phones in common areas, you had to buy and assign them a regular user account.

In addition, Common Area Phones had some unique features, such as hot desking, where a phone uses a common area profile/number by default but users can “sign into” that phone and make it their own extension. In Skype for Business Server, these phones don’t require an active directory user licence or a Skype for Business user licence, which saves some cost. They are actually connected to contact objects. Unlike other phones in Skype for Business Server, common area phones do not have individual active directory user accounts assigned to them. Phones are often located in building lobbies, cafeterias, employee lounges, meeting rooms. In Skype for Business Server (and Lync Server) we have a Common Area Phoneoption. Update 6th March 2018: This is now generally available, blog post updated.

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